Exadel had some documentation/tutorials how to create own custom component descriptions for the VPE.I'm not able to find those docs on EXADEL.com nor on the jboss homepages anywhere.

Is there a description around?At that time, I managed to create custom components that are visualized, but I need to know what methods are supported. Like the src to load image files into the visualization for example.

yeah they're pretty old but with a lucky hand you're able to think where the things have to go and how, so ;-)

I'm looking forward to a more up to date documentation then.

other question: why do you guy not sit together with MyEclipse and WTP to define a common standard of how such custom components can be described? Everbody has an own solution so there is no common thing in it, if somebody would like to switch from one IDE to another he has to create all descriptions again.

both of you guys have advantages and disadvanteges in your way of description, so keep the best things and put them togehter ;-)

Short version: if you look you will notice that all of these are rather implementation dependent so unless we share the same engine then it's not really doable for the kind of flexibility needed.

Long version: JSF (or rather any visual component model) have always had this weakness that their runtime is not possible to reuse for rendering it at designtime, but I know some jcp specs are trying to improve on this.

So sure - if there came out a usable spec for this we would definitly look into it; but I don't think we can avoid the implementation specific parts for now.

can you please put a link here when you wrote that stuff down? would be helpful I think. nice idea with the docbook editor by the way, there is not a good one out for eclipse at the moment... I think it would help the developers if you create a new jboss module just with that, even if it's simple one!) docbook editor... if this would have been around one year ago then we would not have choosed robohelp to generate our online doc ;-)